Milner, Marion (1900–1998)
Milner, Marion (1900–1998)
English psychoanalyst, psychologist and author. Name variations: (pseudonym) Joanna Field. Born Marion Blackett, Feb 1, 1900, in London, England; died May 29, 1998; London University, BS in psychology; m. Dennis Milner (author and inventor, died 1954).
Worked as a psychologist and later trained as a psychoanalyst; as a researcher for the Girl's Public Day School Trust (GPDST, 1935–38), investigated schools and wrote of creative solutions to help difficult students in the critically acclaimed The Human Problem in Schools (1938); believed that male qualities were overvalued in Western societies in comparison to female qualities; under pseudonym Joanne Field, published her reflections on inner transformations in A Life of One's Own (1934), An Experiment in Leisure (1937) and On Not Being Able to Paint (1950); also wrote The Hands of the Living God (1969), The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men (1987), Eternity's Sunrise: A Way of Keeping a Diary (1987) and Bothered by Alligators.